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Higher slaughter numbers and carcase weights have helped production in key producing countries, according to AHDB.

Australian pork production is expected to continue to increase in 2025. Despite stable projections for pork imports and exports in 2025, the U.S. has reestablished itself as Australia’s primary source of pork imports.

In total, 2,483199 head were slaughtered and approved for consumption in the first half of 2024, 0.15% more than in 2023.

Pork exports grew 4% in June 2024, but are down 3.5% year-to-date.

Spanish agri-food and fisheries exports increased by 3% in 2023 and exceeded 70,000 million euros for the first time.

Pork exports were well above year-ago levels in July, led by a value record for shipments to Mexico.

The import of pigs for slaughter decreased by 4.1% in the first half of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023.

In the first half of this year, Chinese pork and offal imports decreased by 28%.

The African swine fever situation is expected to improve in the second half of 2025.

Massachusetts Question 3 bans the sale of pork from hogs born to sows raised in housing that doesn’t comply with the state’s prescriptive standards.

World pig meat prices decreased for the second consecutive month due to lackluster import demand.

Updated guideline makes recommendations to strengthen documentation supporting animal-raising or environment-related claims on meat product labeling.

For the first time since 2016, there was a slight increase in pork production in the first half of the year.

It is expected that by the end of 2024, the total export of Russian pork to foreign markets will reach the target of 300 thousand tons.